Word: ster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...persisted in stealing bases too. His 40-40 distinction in those cross categories ought to combine with Hershiser's record 59 zeroes to make quite a noise. In these anabolic times, a Washington reporter with only the evidence of his eyes has been able to incite chants of "ster-oids, ster- oids" in the bleacher sections around Canseco. But Jose has the grace to grin and make a muscle. "The fans don't mean any harm," he shucks...
...city of Port Elizabeth, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, one of Botha's two nonwhite Cabinet ministers, led a group of 30 | protesters to whites-only King's Beach for a chilly ten-minute "splashabout" in defiance of the law. Proclaimed Hendrickse: "This is God's beach!" In the Transvaal, Ster-Kinekor, South Africa's main distributor of foreign films, said it would stop supplying U.S. productions from Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures unless whites-only admissions policies were dropped. Ster-Kinekor said it was under pressure from the two U.S. filmmakers...
...unholy coincidence that many took to be divine retribution. Two weeks ago, Canon David Jenkins, 59, who had publicly asserted that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...role: the tough, brilliant old pro. Peter Gallagher is the ghost of Fabian with the soul of Ruby Keeler: the lucky, plucky ingenue. Sharkey nurses and rehearses his protege, shouts and seduces, puts him through heck and then shoves him onstage. Sure enough: Gallagher goes out there a young ster, but he comes back a star...
When she describes a sensuous experience, like going swimming, Hellman reaches for her Hemingway: "The water was the right temperature, everything was good, everything was better." She has kept a large vocabulary out of Dashiell Hammett, her longtime companion, and gang ster films. "Stuff' and "junk" are all-purpose nouns; a restaurant is a "steak joint" or a "fish dump...